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Under new rules Spotify announced today, an AI “band” like the now-infamous Velvet Sundown will still be allowed on the service, but would be encouraged to label itself properly from the start. Overall, Spotify has zero intention of eliminating AI-generated music from its service, execs said Tuesday, in a press …

Jurors handed hip-hop producer Metro Boomin a decisive win at his civil sexual-assault trial in Los Angeles on Thursday. After only about an hour of deliberation, the panel of five men and three women unanimously found that plaintiff Vanessa LeMaistre had failed to prove her claims that the influential musician, …

I t’s early August, and Latin Mafia just stepped offstage at Lollapalooza. Even though they’re taking a break at a nearby dining hall, they’re absolutely buzzing with energy. It’s hard to turn that live-wire adrenaline off; they spent the entire set crowd-surfing over screaming fans and inciting mosh pits as …

Taylor Swift conceptualized her upcoming album, The Life of a Showgirl, while traveling around the world on the Eras Tour, reaching the highest heights of pop stardom. But there are a few other things that typically inform the life of a pop girl — like promoting new records on the …

Every year, it seems like there are new data points reaffirming just how big Latin music has gotten: In 2024, the Latin industry reached another commercial peak, making $1.4 billion in revenue in the U.S., according to RIAA numbers. That’s slightly more than 8 percent of revenue in music in …

Jack Antonoff expressed his dismay with recent comments from Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino about concert tickets being “underpriced” with more room to rise, saying, ”This really breaks my heart and is a sick way of looking at it.” On X Thursday, Sept. 25, Antonoff shared some of Rapino’s comments …

The night Shawn James sold out an 1,100-cap room in São Paulo, he realized what many artists who venture south of the U.S. eventually learn: Latin America doesn’t just welcome you, it takes you in completely. “It was the biggest show of my career,” James says. “We sold out and …

Somewhere on Ed Sheeran‘s computer, there’s a version of “Camera”featuring vocals from Justin Bieber. In a new interview with SiriusXM, Sheeran revealed that he had made a version of the Play standout “Camera” as a duet with Bieber for his last album, Justice — but it never came out. “I …

Queen‘s Brian May saw the Eagles play the Sphere in Las Vegas not long ago, and he hasn’t stopped thinking about it since.  ”I was blown away,” he tells Rolling Stone in his interview for our new digital cover story on “Bohemian Rhapsody” at 50. “It’s one of the best …

For those keeping track of the Bruce Springsteen musical-historical complex, 2025 has brought one box set of shelved material, a feature film about the making of Nebraska, a reunion with past and present E Street Band members at a Born to Run symposium in New Jersey, and two books on …